Saturday, April 16, 2005
Oregon prof: "I Agree with much of the logic of Bin Ladin"
Introducing Tom Hastings, who wrote in a column in Peaceworker:
Well, given that the logic of Osama Bin Ladin leads one to a totalitarian Islamist state in which women are treated as chattel slaves and homosexuals are subject to summary execution, I must point out that this man is no true liberal and certainly no patriot. No, he's on Bin Ladin's side. He just disagrees with some of Bin Ladin's methodology.
He thinks he's critiquing Ward Churchill. But he's just as poisonous. Just not as stupid.
Tom, by the way, is the director of Peace and Nonviolence Studies at Portland State University, in Oregon.
A man who professes to nonviolence agrees with the logic of Osama Bin Ladin?
This man is drawing a public paycheck!
Splash, out
Jason
>"While I can understand, empathize, and even agree with much of the logic of Osama bin Ladin and Ward Churchill, I absolutely disagree with the notion that the means are separable from the ends."
Well, given that the logic of Osama Bin Ladin leads one to a totalitarian Islamist state in which women are treated as chattel slaves and homosexuals are subject to summary execution, I must point out that this man is no true liberal and certainly no patriot. No, he's on Bin Ladin's side. He just disagrees with some of Bin Ladin's methodology.
He thinks he's critiquing Ward Churchill. But he's just as poisonous. Just not as stupid.
Tom, by the way, is the director of Peace and Nonviolence Studies at Portland State University, in Oregon.
A man who professes to nonviolence agrees with the logic of Osama Bin Ladin?
This man is drawing a public paycheck!
Splash, out
Jason
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